“To be rather than to seem” is a great guiding principle for effective public policy. Many policies started with good intentions don’t bring about the desired outcomes. Policymakers guided by…
William Voegeli reviews for the New Criterion a book correcting the historical record about Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. It’s authored by Amity Shlaes, who’s following up her documentation of the…
William Voegeli offers National Review readers an apt assessment of the welfare state’s long-term challenge. Until the last Baby Boomer dies sometime in the second half of this century, the…
John Hood wrote this week about the instructive philosophy of Cicero. Wait, don’t go yet. Cicero wasn’t just the “Roman orator and statesman … contemporary (and enemy) of Julius Caesar…
William Voegeli outlines at National Review Online a key contradiction in liberals’ approach to educating their kids. [D]iversity in education, from preschool to postgraduate, and the resulting holy war on…
William Voegeli explores in a Federalist column some political observers’ unwillingness to accept a neutral approach to the new president. “Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter…
The latest print edition of National Review features William Voegeli‘s trenchant assessment of Hillary Clinton’s “vacuous philosophy.” The earnest, incoherent moralism that characterized Clintonism at the outset remains its salient…
William Voegeli warns in the pages of Commentary magazine that “Democrats are gearing up to reverse decades of successful policing,” including police efforts championed by the presidential front-runner’s husband during…
William Voegeli writes in the Weekly Standard about Democratic politicians’ concern that the American people can’t be trusted to comprehend the benefits of big government. … [T]oday’s Democrats are only…
View in your browser. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why…
The latest print edition of National Review features Michael Knox Beran‘s review of The Pity Party, the latest book from William Voegeli. Beran focuses on the author’s analysis of the…
William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books recently explained for a Hillsdale College audience, documented in the latest issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis, why public policies based on compassion often…